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"Grotesque Panels" with Rape of Ganymede
Artist: after Enea Vico (Italian, 1523-1567)
Date: about 1550-1560
Medium: etching
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. W. H. Snyder
Object number: 1917.53
Label Text:The scene depicted on this ornamental print is from the ancient Greek myth of Ganymede, a youth whose beauty caused the god Zeus to fall in love with him and abduct him to Olympus (another meaning of the word “rape” is to forcefully abduct and is often used in this sense in Greek mythology).
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